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Viewing entries tagged with 'wait'
What's Going On?!
If Good Friday brings with it a sense of darkness and defeat, the day that follows can only be a day where that sense is amplified. After being awake through much of the night that precedes Jesus’ crucifixion, the apostles have watched in horror as the teacher suffers the death of a criminal. The sun has set. And at some point fitful sleep comes.
On Your Mark! Get Set!! Wait!!!
Picture this! A couple of weeks ago in New York, I’m standing near the front of a lineup to see a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman. It’s a long lineup, stretching out about half a block behind me. Everyone in the lineup has tickets for the show’s afternoon taping. There is an accepted order that we all implicitly agree to. We know we just have to wait, and, in turn, we will be permitted access to the Ed Sullivan Theatre where the taping will take place. Simple.
Ready, Set,... Wait!
At our retreat in New Hampshire this week, one of the sessions that we worked on had to do with waiting, and specifically, waiting on the Lord. The ‘waiting on the Lord’ part is significant. Because - let’s face it - waiting is something that the people of the western world do not do well.
